Graham Johnson Knihy

Featuring insights into 150 composers and 700 song translations, this guide serves as a comprehensive resource for both aficionados and newcomers to French song. Graham Johnson offers biographical commentary drawn from his extensive experience as an accompanist, while Richard Stokes delivers meticulous line-by-line translations of iconic poems set to music. This companion is essential for anyone looking to deepen their understanding and appreciation of the rich repertoire of French song.

One of the greatest modernist composers comes alive in this illuminating biography, a must-have for musicians and music-lovers alike.

The Cartel is Britain's biggest drugs organisation, a shadowy network stretching from the freezing, fog-banks of the Mersey to the glittering marinas of Marbella, from the coffee shops of Amsterdam to the trading floors of Canary Wharf. Run by godfathers as rich as Branson but kept in line by a new generation of teenage killers.

This collection of imagined book covers will have you scratching your head and laughing out loud with every page turn. Though Pranks with Sausages and Holy Bible II don't actually exist, Rejected Books offers up a professionally produced catalogue of the worst books imaginable, and what these tomes (and plenty more) could look like. Rejected Books includes delightfully weird covers of imagined books like- The Sculptors Who Couldn't Do Hands Cooking with Breast Milk Possessed Toys- A Buying Guide Unfortunate Gluing Accidents Camel Toes Through History Enjoy the worst book pitches of all time and rest assured that anyone can have a future in publishing ... even if your ideas are totally horrible.

Choking the chicken, spanking the monkey, airing the orchid-whatever you call it, none of the images in this book will encourage the gentle art of self-pleasure. This deceptively simple and strangely addictive book presents a laugh-out-loud collection of random pictures virtually guaranteed to dampen the urge of even the strongest libido.

Gangster Paul Grimes was a one-man crimewave with a breathtaking capacity to steal. Grimes infiltrated his cocaine cartel and led Customs to the largest narcotics seizure on record, putting Warren in the dock in the drugs trial of the twentieth century.

In SAS-style swoops, French raided their fortified mansions and tortured them with horrifying violence until they paid up. The Devil also reveals French's complex relationship with Curtis Warren, the wealthiest criminal in British history.

From phone taps, to kiss-and-tells, to eventual redemption: the story of a journalist drawn into the depths of the world of tabloid sleaze